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Page viii
... thought negligible . Each of the Silver epic poets has individual qualities . To look upon them as mere foils to Virgil is a mistake . Some- times , in the course of sustained passages , Lucan achieves an elevation of tone and utterance ...
... thought negligible . Each of the Silver epic poets has individual qualities . To look upon them as mere foils to Virgil is a mistake . Some- times , in the course of sustained passages , Lucan achieves an elevation of tone and utterance ...
Page xxiv
... thought . In post - Augustan times when rhetoric predominated the term came to be applied both to a striking thought , pointedly and thus memorably expressed , and to what would now be called an aphorism . 12 ยง35 Lucan is full of ...
... thought . In post - Augustan times when rhetoric predominated the term came to be applied both to a striking thought , pointedly and thus memorably expressed , and to what would now be called an aphorism . 12 ยง35 Lucan is full of ...
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... thought , but more precisely defines ' the hair of the baleful star ' ( crinemque timendi / sideris ) . mutantem regna : comets were believed to portend war , revolution , the death of kings and rulers ( cf. Statius , Thebaid 1.708 quae ...
... thought , but more precisely defines ' the hair of the baleful star ' ( crinemque timendi / sideris ) . mutantem regna : comets were believed to portend war , revolution , the death of kings and rulers ( cf. Statius , Thebaid 1.708 quae ...
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Achilles adjective Aeetes Aeneas Aeneid aequora aether amor Amyclas Apollo Apollonius Appendix passage Argonautica Argonauts arma atque battle bella Book caeli caelo Caesar caput Carmentis cedetur chariot Classical Colchis cura dative death Delphic deum deus divine Dorceu Ennius etiam Fama fata fera fluctus Fortuna funeral Georgics gods Greek haec haud heaven Homer iamque Iliad inter ipsa ipse Jason Latin epic latus litora Lucan manu Medea medio Metamorphoses metus mihi moralising Nero nubila nunc omni orbe Ovid pectore Phrixus poem poet's poetic poetry Pompey Pompey's prophetess pyre quae quam quis quoque Roman Rome scene Scipio Seneca Sextus Pompeius sidera siege of Massilia Silius Italicus Silvae Silver Age Silver epic poets Silver Latin similes Statius storm subitus tamen tantum terrae Thebaid tibi umbra unda underworld Valerius Flaccus Virgil Virgil Aeneid Virgilian viro virum volucres vultus younger Seneca